دانلود کتاب Micromorphology of Soils and Paleosols of India

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Preface
Contents
About the Authors
1: Micromorphology of Soils and Paleosols: Overview and Introduction
1.1 Introduction
References
2: New Criteria to Identify Argillans as Evidence of Clay Illuviation
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Argillic Horizon Formation in Loamy-Textured and Calcareous Soils of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP)
2.3 Clay Illuviation in Vertisols
2.4 Clay Illuviation in Mollisols, Alfisols, and Ultisols of Indian Humid Tropical (HT) Climate
2.5 Usefulness of Micromorphological Studies in Resolving Enigmatic Clay Illuviation Process in Soils and Sediments
References
3: Modifications of Plasmic Fabric in SAT Vertisols in a Climosequence: Evidence for Holocene Climate Changes
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Swelling of Vertisols and Development of Slickensides and Plasmic Fabrics
References
4: Micromorphological Criteria to Identify Calcium Carbonates of Pedogenic (PC) and Non-Pedogenic (NPC) Origin in SAT Soils an...
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Micromorphology of CaCO3
4.2.1 For Identification of PC
4.2.2 For Identification of NPC
4.3 Presence of PC and NPC in Soil Types of India
4.3.1 Role of Minerals in the Formation of PC
4.4 Implications of PC Formation in Contemporary Pedogenesis and Management
References
5: Micromorphology to Understand Landscape Evolutions and Pedogenic Response to Neotectonics and Holocene Climatic Changes: A ...
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Micromorphology to Understand Landscape Stability and Pedogenic Response to Neotectonics in the IGP Soils
5.3 Micromorphology to Infer Climatic Variability and the Pedogenic Response
References
6: Micromorphological Approach to Identify Polygenesis in Soils
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Micromorphology of the Younger Soils (<2.5 ka)
6.3 Micromorphology of the Older Soils (>2.5 ka)
6.4 Micromorphological Evidences of Polygenesis in Older Soils (>2.5 ka) of the IGP
References
7: Micromorphology of the Paleosols to Reconstruct Late Quaternary Paleoclimatic Record, Alluvial Cyclicity, and Stratigraphy ...
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Micromorphology of the Paleosols in the Two Drill Core Successions of the Ganga-Yamuna Interfluve, Ganga Basin
7.3 Micromorphology of the Paleosols and Paleoclimatic Reconstructions
7.4 Micromorphology as a Tool for Establishing Alluvial Cyclicity and Stratigraphy in Fluvial Sediments
References
8: Micromorphology to Distinguish Diagenetic Overprinting and Paleopedogenic Features in Lithified Paleosols of the Himalayan ...
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Occurrence of Lithified Paleosols in the Himalayan Foreland Basin
8.3 Micromorphology of the Paleosols-Diagenetic Overprinting and Paleopedofeatures
8.4 Micromorphological Guideline for Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Diagenetically Influenced Paleosols
References
9: Micromorphology of the Calcic Soils of the Thar Desert: Implication for Climate Change and Origin of Palygorskite
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Macroscopic Features of the Calcic Soils of the Western Thar
9.3 Micromorphology of the Calcic Soils of the Western Thar
9.4 Pedogenesis and Calcic Soils of the Thar Desert
9.5 Origin of Palygorskite in Calcic Soils of the Thar Desert
References
10: Summary and Concluding Remarks